Arthur Hayes Dumps ETH for $6M in Pendle, Lido, and Emerging DeFi Tokens
Most of the redeployed funds flowed into Pendle, Lido, Ethena, and Ether.fi within minutes of the ETH sale. Former...
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Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial To Enter Foreign Exchange Market
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the family of US President Donald Trump, announced on...
Anchorage Enables SOL Borrowing Without Moving Custody
Anchorage Digital has partnered with Kamino and Solana Company to roll out a structure that allows institutions to borrow against...
Vitalik Buterin Slams ‘Fake’ DeFi, Backs ETH-Based Algo Stablecoins
Buterin criticized modern DeFi as centralized in disguise, arguing USDC yield farming misses core principles. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin...
BlackRock Brings $2.1B BUIDL Fund to Uniswap
Asset management giant BlackRock is making its first formal move into decentralized finance by bringing its tokenized US Treasury fund...
Lombard to Launch Bitcoin Smart Accounts for Institutions
Lombard said it plans to launch Bitcoin Smart Accounts, designed to allow Bitcoin held in institutional custody to be used...
Israel Crypto Industry Pushes Regulatory Reforms
The Israeli Crypto Blockchain & Web 3.0 Companies Forum last week launched a lobbying effort to push regulatory reforms that...
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News & Price Indexes
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin drew a clear boundary around what he considers “real” decentralized finance (DeFi), pushing back against yield-driven...
Uniswap’s Hayden Adams Rejects Claims AMMs Are Unsustainable
Adams argues automated market makers are quietly winning where capital is cheap and volatility is low, like stablecoin pools....
Truebit Suffers $26.5M Loss in First Major DeFi Hack of 2026
The exploit leveraged a flaw in Truebit’s pricing logic, letting the attacker mint unlimited TRU tokens and drain ETH...
Trend Research Dumps Over 400K as Liquidation Risk Rises
Ethereum investment vehicle Trend Research continued to reduce its Ether exposure, as the latest market crash pushed the treasury company...
Stacks and Fireblocks Partner To Bring Bitcoin-Based DeFi to Institutions
Update (2-4-26 at 6:49 UTC): This article has been updated to show the correct Stacks block time as 5 secondsFireblocks,...
Survey Shows Crypto Investors Favor Infrastructure Over DeFi
A survey of senior crypto investors and executives suggests capital priorities are shifting away from decentralized finance (DeFi) and toward...
DeFi TVL Tops $99B, Stablecoin Volume Hits $18.8T
Ethereum’s DeFi TVL surpassed $99B, over nine times larger than the next Layer 1, showing dominant network adoption in...
Makina Finance Loses $4.13M in Flash Loan Exploit On Curve Pool
The attacker used a 280 million USDC flash loan and oracle manipulation to extract nearly $5 million in value....
Farcaster Co-Founder Pushes Back on Shutdown Rumors
Merkle plans to return the full $180M raised to investors, framing the move as responsible capital management. Farcaster co-founder...
Pudgy Penguins Secures Las Vegas Sphere Spot After Dogwifhat Campaign Fails
Pudgy Penguins succeeded by avoiding direct references to crypto, with the campaign focused only on physical consumer products rather...
There Is No Trust In DeFi Without Proper Risk Management
Opinion by: Robert Schmitt, founder and co-CEO at CorkDeFi has entered its institutional phase. As large investors dip their toes...
Messari Calls DePIN a $10B Sector with Resilient Revenues
Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) have been written off as dead by many investors, but a new “State of DePIN...
EU’s DeFi Tax Gap Won’t Last Forever, Says Ex-OECD Official
The European Union’s new cryptocurrency tax reporting framework is built around what governments can immediately enforce, leaving decentralized finance (DeFi)...
Animoca Japan, RootstockLabs Partner to Bring Bitcoin DeFi to Corporates
Animoca Brands Japan has partnered with RootstockLabs to introduce Bitcoin-native decentralized finance (DeFi) tools to Japanese corporations and institutions.The collaboration...
Fedi, Cornell And Bitcoin Think Tank Launch US Financial Privacy Study
Update (Jan. 23, 2026, at 12:15 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include commentary from Renee Sorchik, BPI’s...
